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expand-a-foam will let you make some fully sic flares, love that crap.

Got the AE86 gland nut's for holding the shockies down today, a perfect fit. All I've got to do now is get the rotor's machined and score some new brake pads.

Now that's original, maybe I should make a KE70 ute rather than getting a hilux

Could be that vertical steel pipe from the head rusted on, get a piccy if you can.

The ones that are $155 are the same as the $180 stainless ones, that's the thing that really frustrated me, he even uses the same image on all the ad's and when I asked a detailed question about his product he told be to refer to the image :jamie: After a week of hassling him about them not being stainless steel he agreed to let me return them, I did registered post aswell, so he can't pretend they were never returned. I lost $50 in the transaction due to his false advertising, not very cool. Put the arm in a vice put some tension on the steering arm, then bash the side of it with a hammer. Watch you don't kill the rubber boot, I put a hole in mine :P

I'm just suspect on alloy in suspension, it likes to shock fracture. The way I was planning to shorten the strut required something that I could weld as the sleeve. All good now anyway, picked up a set of sprinter coilovers for the job.

I'm in for Skirmish :jamie:

The rear housing doesn't come to easily off the 4AC cause of the tube that runs down from the head and seals with waterpump housing with a o-ring. Was the front seal on the pump shaft busted or the link between the rear housing and the head/ rear heater hose?

Nice work, now all you need to do is get a new carby, a mate of mine has a 180 Holley that's never been used and I have an adapter plate spare. They're a 32/36 weber remake but have the advantage of using holley jets that are half the price of weber ones and still can be bought off the shelf. $60 for the carb and the plate, has no filter though.

Don't touch the Coilover kits from kelvin5878 on ebay, I bought an apparent stainless steel kit to do a conversion and they ended up being alloy! Then he tried to tell me that the springs were stainless steel, but they were powdercoated! Grrrrr, never buying things like that on ebay again. Good luck on the stainless valves, would be a great upgrade :( I have a bare bigport head, but there is a slight nick on one bucket bores, from some dumb person (me) was removing the valve springs. I'm not sure whether it's any good but you can have it for cheap. I can get a piccy of the damage if you want, I'd say a good machinist would be able to fix it.

If it's nothing to do with the brakes it'll be the transfer case or the diff. Put it in neutral, jack up the ass end and disconnect the tail shaft. if the diff spins, not the diff. Try spining the transfer case, which is more likely what it is, my mate races sierra's and these are the weakest link (when you have a strong 4age pushing things)

Nah, not using the sheild as a ground, just alloying all 4 wires on the microtech ecu to be wired to the 2 sets of 2 wires in the dizzy. Doing this should allow for less noise in the signal, so I've been told.

Guess what! I've paid for a kellam box for doing the igniton! Great price too, thanks Jonny Rochester! One headache removed. Thanks for the help though NickZ, I still should make a box to do the ignition, I'm sure people would love to be able to make one cheap. Demuire, is that big resistor to adjust the fuel guage level? Been a bit worried about the long trips of late. I haven't got any gland nut's that'll fit the shockies/struts yet, so the suspension rebuild will have to wait unfortunately. Hopefully in the next week I can get it done, it's getting a bit soft now. One of the caster bar nuts that attach to the LCA is stripped, gonna have to grind it off I think. So happy I've got a parts car, makes life much easier when little things go wrong. Better get some pics of the coilovers, very happy with my purchase.

I don't know where to post this to make it a useful reference, so here it is. Earlier today a mate and I got his bigport running properly on a LTX-8 running wasted spark. I'd tried for ages to find a cheap CAS, but they're very over priced. If you order the wrong microtech for a bigport they'll charge you $300 to make it run on a single coil too! Solution: All I did was remove 3 of the 4 prongs on the top "home" wheel with a grinder! I've heard of people doing it, so I thought it was worth a try. After this mod, we still had no spark, but it'd try a little to fire, I figured it was a weak signal. Bigport dizzies have only 3 wires on the plug, so to get it to work properly I cut the shared common ground wired between the two pickups and wired them separately to the microtech harness. Away the camy little bigport went, the first time I've ever seen it idle without a foot on a the pedal :P Hope this makes it to the people who need it.

Mother of satan that's a big motor in a rolla. must have some balls now :) Love the 2 door KE70's why didn't australia ever get em!! Great work all round though mate :D

ah crap, that's not good at all. Hopefully he's back on the show sometime.

Nice one dude, things are coming along nicely. Let us know if you need help with the bigport loom, I've done a few of them with my mate now, and there alot easier than a bloody 20V.

Got to admit, twin round lights on a KE70 looks great! Nice work mate. If I had one, I'd have to go butcher a TA22 too :D

Hey mate, nice work there! That 20's gonna fly, geez it's tight against the wall hey. From my research the GZE cas and the 100kw dizzy have the same internals. If it's running with the dizzy pickups you can always make a custom cover to close it up. I hope it's not suffering from weak signal at high rev's syndrome, that's a pain in the ass, I've even heard of some ecu's suffering from it with a GZE cas :D

Love those rims :D Now dump it on its ass :) Looks pretty neat eh, much like my first old rolla. 4AGE's are a great little motor. If you take your time and buy bits cheap as they show up you can get one fitted on a pretty cheap budget, hopefully parts can be found easily down south.

Nice score mate, looks very original. Best of luck with where the old beast takes you.

I picked up a set of AE86 coilovers today, shortened stock strut with weld on sleeves, has adjustable shockies that are dead :D Been on the phone to the shocky reconditioner and hopefully they can be fixed. Till then I'm gonna run gas camry shockies with 6kg (I think) springs. This weekend I'm gonna rebuild whole front end suspension, nothing will be left untouched. Can't wait to see how it drives! Bit of a shame I didn't end up building the corona coilovers, the brakes are bigger, upgrades are simpler. Ah well, this'll brake alot better than stock and cost a fraction of the price, I can always mod on some RX7 calipars with peug or mini discs.

Mine was an auto at 100 it sat on 2K rpm. So it probably was geared quite high. -- Now that I think of it it must have been really high, you could drop the auto back to 2nd doing 100kph and the gearbox wouldn't winge. It'd hit about 4400 rpm and eat up any overtaking opportunity.

Shit eh? I owned a VL for a few years, well driven I could easily get within the 7's on the highway, maybe your brother has a lead foot.

If I was to put a 6 cyl into a corolla it'd be a 1JZ on an aftermarket computer. In such a small car it'd be a weapon, damn a 1ggte is pleanty powerful enough. By all means throw an eco-tech in if you're really keen, been done a few times now, I just don't think the power delivery is very good for a small car.